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Stories · 6

  1. Our Friend, The Meter

    Science · Humor · · posted by timothy · from the you-mean-people-like-nasa dept. · 1,672 comments
    dbirchall writes "Upon hearing that SpaceShipOne reached 100km today, I did some hasty math based on the altitude in feet sttated by Scaled Composites in their press release, and was surprised to come up with a number under 100,000 meters. Fortunately, a friend pointed out that my inches-to-meters conversion was flawed. Some quick Googling determined that lots of people still have no idea how many inches are in a meter, even after some folks have had big problems because of conversion errors."

  2. LavaNet Looking for Beta-Testers for Spammo

    Yro · Privacy · · posted by timothy · from the fling-it-out-with-due-speed dept. · 8 comments
    hawaiian717 writes "Pacific Business News is reporting that Hawaii-based ISP LavaNet is looking for beta-testers for their ISP-based Spam filtering tool, Spammo, in preparation for a wider release of the product."

  3. LavaNet Looking for Beta-Testers for Spammo

    Yro · Privacy · · posted by timothy · from the fling-it-out-with-due-speed dept. · 8 comments
    hawaiian717 writes "Pacific Business News is reporting that Hawaii-based ISP LavaNet is looking for beta-testers for their ISP-based Spam filtering tool, Spammo, in preparation for a wider release of the product."

  4. Managing Assets in Final Fantasy

    Developers · Movies · · posted by michael · from the finding-the-zombie-dogs dept. · 8 comments
    skia writes "Interesting topic with an even more interesting backdrop: Tracking Assets in the Production of "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within". From the article: "Creative processes don't have clearly defined paths... therefore, the attempt to give a static definition for such process has to face the tension between divergence towards the creative possibilities and convergence towards the pre-defined mechanical process that databases can handle." It also links to Beating the Averages, which is another must-read for /.ers."

  5. Debian's apt-get vs Mandrake's urpmi?

    Linux · Mandrake · · posted by Cliff · from the uber-package-tool-deathmatch dept. · 238 comments
    Deven Phillips asks: "I have been using Linux-Mandrake for quite a while now, and I wanted to know what Slashdotters think of the two rival package management systems available for Mandrake: apt and urpmi. I have been playing with both (apt is available in the Contribs section), and I have to say that so far urpmi is winning. I have always heard that apt-get is the best, so I am surprised by my conclusions. Am I missing something? Is apt for RPM not as mature as the deb counterpart?" I, for one, would have liked to have heard the reasons as to why Deven feels that urpmi is superior, but maybe there are a few of you out there who feel the same way, that can communicate this as well as he can. For those of you who have tried both, what features do you like out of the two of them, and which tool serves your needs the best?

  6. Searching For A Reliable Backup System?

    Ask · Linux · · posted by Cliff · from the when-tape-isn't-good-enough dept. · 24 comments
    InfoSec asks: "We run a great deal (read all) of our current business on Linux, and we have found that tape backup is far too unreliable for our purposes. We have used Quantum DLT 7000s (two of which died), and we have two VXA drives (11 hours to restore three tarballs). Is there a better solution?"